PLANNER SEGMENT. Small Group Play.
PYRAMID BLOCK. Receiving & Passing
PURPOSE. To Improve first touch & Passing Accuracy
AGE. U12, U16.
SET UP.
Players with a ball each in a 24-meter circle with a 5-meter square marked in middle. 4 players in the middle zone.
ACTION.
No ball.
On Coachʼs signal middle players run to Perimeter Players and change places with them. The Perimeter Players must bend their run through the middle zone to change with another player.
As the players get warmed up theyʼre encouraged to make bigger and stronger CUTS in the middle zone.
Variation
The middle player plays a 1-2 pass to the Perimeter Player then sprints through the Middle Zone, bends his run towards another Perimeter Player and another 1-2 Pass.
Middle Zone Players must count the passes they complete in 45 seconds.
The combinations are:
- One touch push pass with inside
- Take outside pass inside of same foot
- Take across body with inside of foot and pass with inside of opposite foot
- Take with inside of foot & passes with outside of same foot
- Volley inside of foot.
- Cushion header then return
- Chest and head
- Knee trap & Half volley
- Chest trap & Half volley
- Juggle twice with inside of both feet and volley back
- Let ball run through legs then spin and make a change of direction in move and passes back.
COACHʼS TIP.
Keep only 4 players in the middle so that others can rest between efforts. Increase or decrease the allotted time for each
exercise to make them easier or harder.
PLAYERʼS TIP.
Middle players call for the ball.
Perimeter players to wait for the Call before passing.
